Ovdje neće biti čuda

Bender, a young intellectual, sat out the wars of the 1990s in an unnamed Western city: an escapist who runs from the past and from everyday life alike, full of doubt about himself. An unexpected call from his father, who stayed behind, brings him home, on his first return, to the village he comes from, laid waste by the war and now almost deserted. His mother has gone missing, and the father needs him to help look for her. Day after day the two men search, unable to put into words what they have suffered and lost, while Bender's struggle with himself, his demons and his father, and his failure to step out of his fate, push him towards denying reality altogether.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

229 pages in the original

Genres

Family, War (assigned by AI)

Set in

Croatia

First published

2011 by Fraktura

Author's age

33 when first published

ISBN

9789532662498 (original)